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Fantastic? I wouldn't know. It contains beautiful things but also hints at the negative germs of the last album, a real stinker.

DeFeis is someone to be respected for a lifetime, the album? Still mediocre, rough. The best will come out a decade later.

@Cappio, I only just realized what was written, and I’m saying this now (with evident delay): my words were definitely not directed at you, as I hadn’t even noticed your comment above. They were simply words of praise for a person like Agosti, whom I have respected and appreciated for quite some time (since I discovered and loved the "Lettere dalla Kirghisia"). It was simply a misunderstanding for which I apologize first and foremost, since my words triggered a totally absurd dispute based on no premise, but rather stemming from a misunderstanding. Lastly, I thank Senzastile for having gone to great lengths in my defense.

Uhm, I can't tell you why, but I read and hear great things about it, yet it doesn't convince me. I haven't found the key to appreciate it, or maybe it's just not the right time, or simply I just don't like it. I'll hold on to my doubts.

Agosti is great, period. Iside has given us an example of his genius. 5 almost regardless.

Beautiful soundtrack, but it doesn’t overshadow the other. They are on the same level (the movie, on the other hand, doesn’t hold up to the series).

Zot! is the ideology! That's how it should be done!

Maybe now I understand, maybe not. I want to tell you something: those fake frustrated rich kids from the Distinti have no idea who the Clash are. You talk about flattening out, and it’s true; I see it right in that world that I stupidly tried to defend in the previous comment (looking at the finger and not the moon). They would have the right to cheer against the police if they had reasons to do so, if they had ideals and values to defend. Finding oneself in a context (like being in the stands of a stadium) seems, at first glance, to be the easiest way to get involved and acquire identities. The next step is missing: to bite the bullet and become a part of it personally. They are afraid of being left out… they are outside, and someone is aware of this. The ultras world and its crisis is a beautiful image of the structural trend of subversion and critical dissent. Many from the past gave up the reins too early, without building a subsequent generation that could find itself in certain values and create a recycling of people, or they don’t let go because they can’t. So, we stagnate. "Where you can basically do whatever the hell you want without facing any consequences," almost everything. You pay dearly for freedom of expression, as you would hardly pay for it anywhere else, and this for a simple reason: the stadium has its visibility. Thus, football is an excellent vehicle for uncomfortable messages (even against the police, where there’s a difference between those who talk about the "first enemy" and those who talk about the "first representative of the enemy"). The uncomfortable message, conveyed through a social center or a bookstore or other similar places, becomes easier to isolate, but a banner denouncing police abuses or economic speculation when 5, 10, or 50 cameras can frame you becomes dangerous. Things haven’t changed: in the end, the abuses are the same, and thus the dissent is the same. What has changed is the mindset of people because now it starts from that assumption of denying '68 "because dangerous messages were conveyed" and other similar nonsense, so dissent must be moderated. It must be circumscribed and downscaled. The blame is ours (my generation's) for not being able to assimilate history and draw positive nourishment from it, but it’s also the fault of those who were there before because they tried to convey a message, already back then they believed in it little, and thus later found themselves renouncing it. It’s a vicious circle, it ends up even, but we all lose. And anyway, if I had understood something a long time ago, I wouldn’t be here; I’d be writing letters and notes from San Vittore...

I don't know, I don't share that part. The one about "the police being the first enemy." Maybe it's because I know the mechanisms of that world all too well to condemn them entirely, maybe it no longer concerns me, but when I read things that are wrong and false, I tend to defend them; maybe for many reasons, they don't fully belong to me. Perhaps I have a different image of what you write, of the love I harbor for your past reviews, perhaps it's because we have a common teacher (Federico Fiumani), but that final part clashes in a fabulous comparison with a youthful idol of yours. Allow me the right to criticize, Carlo, think it over: I don't know about Naples, but elsewhere (here in Brescia, for example), they are anything but Nazi-fascists, and tomorrow I will have confirmation of that. Take care, I look forward to your next review.

I saw it and from a purely investigative standpoint, it’s a very good film; it raises many interesting issues (starting with the one about the "Grandi eventi" of Bertolasiana ownership). Logically, Sabina, lacking a directly journalistic background (like the one that comes out of any investigation from Report), makes some minor mistakes, but overall, it still shows good judgment. In Brescia, a small cinema in the city center screened it.